Monty Hall

When an institution did face failure, the Treasury and the Fed -- usually represented by the New York Federal Reserve Bank -- would try to merge the failing institution into another, with Timothy Geithner reprising the Monty Hall role in his own version of Let's Make a Deal.

L. Randall Wray: Let's Make a Deal: The Bail-Out of Wall Street in Unusual and Exigent Circumstances L. Randall Wray 2012

When an institution did face failure, the Treasury and the Fed -- usually represented by the New York Federal Reserve Bank -- would try to merge the failing institution into another, with Timothy Geithner reprising the Monty Hall role in his own version of Let's Make a Deal.

L. Randall Wray: Let's Make a Deal: The Bail-Out of Wall Street in Unusual and Exigent Circumstances L. Randall Wray 2012

This is an excellent question, one that probably can only be answered with the realistic response that many readers of current entertainment media wouldn't remember Monty Hall either, and he's apparently still alive.

At the Oscars' A-List—and Z-List—Soirees Marshall Heyman 2011

To give you a gauge of the kind of party it is, a press release said that the guests expected included Powers Boothe, Jermaine Jackson, Kevin Sorbo, Lolita Davidovich, Lou Gossett Jr., the Geico Caveman, Fred Savage, Lou Diamond Phillips, Monty Hall and Dominick Dunne in memorium.

At the Oscars' A-List—and Z-List—Soirees Marshall Heyman 2011

When an institution did face failure, the Treasury and the Fed -- usually represented by the New York Federal Reserve Bank -- would try to merge the failing institution into another, with Timothy Geithner reprising the Monty Hall role in his own version of Let's Make a Deal.

L. Randall Wray: Let's Make a Deal: The Bail-Out of Wall Street in Unusual and Exigent Circumstances L. Randall Wray 2012

When an institution did face failure, the Treasury and the Fed -- usually represented by the New York Federal Reserve Bank -- would try to merge the failing institution into another, with Timothy Geithner reprising the Monty Hall role in his own version of Let's Make a Deal.

L. Randall Wray: Let's Make a Deal: The Bail-Out of Wall Street in Unusual and Exigent Circumstances L. Randall Wray 2012

When an institution did face failure, the Treasury and the Fed -- usually represented by the New York Federal Reserve Bank -- would try to merge the failing institution into another, with Timothy Geithner reprising the Monty Hall role in his own version of Let's Make a Deal.

L. Randall Wray: Let's Make a Deal: The Bail-Out of Wall Street in Unusual and Exigent Circumstances L. Randall Wray 2012

Adding to the conflict: a new device, the "Medallion of Power," whose attributes I won't spoil here except to note that when it's introduced, Jeff Probst goes all Monty Hall and plays "Let's Make a Deal" with it.

The New Season in Review: Outlaw, Survivor, Just Desserts 2010

You can win big money, as Monty Hall used to say, a cool two million bucks if you show the government how to do it.

To Spur Innovation, Offer Millions In Cash Prizes 2010

You can win big money, as Monty Hall used to say, a cool two million bucks if you show the government how to do it.

To Spur Innovation, Offer Millions In Cash Prizes 2010